Hawking: A.I. 'worst event in the history of civilization'

Hawking: A.I. 'worst event in the history of civilization' Nov 11, 2017 0:00:48 GMT

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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Nov 11, 2017 0:00:48 GMT

Nov 10, 2017 15:46:24 GMT general313 said:

Nov 10, 2017 1:21:43 GMT Eva Yojimbo said:

1. After watching Blade Runner he'll determine humanity's greatest threat is existential.

2. Almost certainly the latter. I can't imagine how intelligence alone could lead to any rather primitive (by comparison) emotions.

1. Maybe the problem is he just recently watched 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time

2. Yes, i suspect so too, however since we've never observed an intelligence without emotions I think it is sheer speculation to suppose that they can exist separately.

1. HAL is actually a pretty good example of how easy it is to think you've programmed an AI with goals mutual to humans, only to find out it decides humans are more a detriment to achieving those goals than in achieving them.

2. That's because all intelligences we've observed were shaped by natural selection rather than artificial selection. Emotions are mostly the result of certain chemicals in brains, which won't be present if we're programming it artificially. Not to say we couldn't perhaps artificially replicate them in some way, but I'm not sure how that would work or what purpose it would serve. In natural selection emotions seem to be a quick short-hand in decision making, much faster than rational consideration of evidence.